Bielefeld AG setup

[Thomas D. Uram]

I apologize for not sending a report about Bielefeld last week.  I was 
busy with them until the last minute before I had to leave to catch my 
train, and then was sick and offline for several days.

Ralf Nolte had set up the AG software on the laptop before I arrived.  I 
was able to configure the software on the laptop with a projector and 
have them sending and receiving video and audio quickly.  They also had 
to make some changes to their router config to get multicast working on 
the network they established specifically for this purpose.  Once 
everything was setup, I walked the room of 10 people through the 
software and they asked questions and everyone was confident that it 
could be replicated on additional machines as needed.  (Folker talked 
about setting up the software on a couple Solaris machines to backend a 
multi-machine node, and seemed very confident; I told him he shouldn't 
expect that to be as simple as it seems.)

They had someone preparing for a thesis defense in their main meeting 
room, so we couldn't do anything in there during my visit.

I also spent some time with the IT group down the hall, who've been 
trying to set up the software under SuSe.  We resolved some of the 
problems they had, but they're still having problems with cross-machine 
communications.  Anyway, they're working on Neuro-Informatics, and 
they're exploring the application of sound to data analysis, and working 
with haptic devices for data analysis.  Their lab looks like an AG node 
already, and their work would--since it's so media-intensive--integrate 
with the AG well.

Tom